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 Over the two weekends of the 4th & 5th and 11th & 12th June 2011, Wrekin College Swimming & Triathlon Club BAGCAT squad attended the Midlands Age Group Championships held at the 50M international pool in the City of Coventry.
First Weekend - 4th & 5th July 2011
Rachel Reilly was delighted with her swimmers performances over the first weekend of the Midland Bagcat Championships. The results speak for themselves with swimmers achieving personal best times and medal places. Of the twelve swimmers competing seven finished within the top eight positions; Paige Norry-Addison (Aged 12) gained her first National Qualifying Time (NQT) for 100m Butterfly; Holly Barnett (Aged 13), Luke Smith (Aged 10) and Macauley Carline (Aged 14) all qualified for the finals.
Congratulations also to Holly Townson (Aged 10), Luke Smith, Paige Norry-Addison and Holly Barnett who all won bronze medals.
Charlie Percox (Aged 11), Jon Mills (Aged 11), Jacob Blakemore (Aged 11) and Connie Sanders (Aged 11) also swam and gained new personal best times (PBs).
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 On the weekend of the 1st and 2nd of May, some of the Wrekin Colleges Youth Squad members coached by Dave Clarke attended the 2010 Midlands Youth Championships held at the 50M International Pool in Coventry.
Day 1 started brilliantly with Charlotte Humphreys in the 100M Butterfly event smashing her Personal Best (PB) by over 3 seconds, followed by Maddy Tracy, Olivia Phoenix and Philippa Brown all competing in the 200M Freestyle event and also all gaining PBs.
In the second session of the day Charlotte swam in the 100M Butterfly Finals and won a well deserved Bronze medal. Whilst Maddy competed in the 200M Freestyle Finals narrowly missed out on a medal having finished 4th but picked up her 3rd National Qualifying Time (NQT) of the year. Olivia also reached the Finals of both the 50M Backstroke event finishing 5th with a new PB and also 4th in the 200M Backstroke event.
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Over the two weekends of the 5th & 6th and 12th & 13th June 2010, Wrekin College Swimming & Triathlon Club BAGCAT squad attended the Midlands Age Group Championships held at the 50M international pool in the City of Coventry.
Maintaining the very high standards of where our Youth Squad left off from the previous month was Megan Carline, Paige Norry-Addison and Lauren Holland (All Aged 11) in the first event of the championships the 200M Freestyle. All girls swam exceptional with Megan Carline also making the finals where she finished 4th.
Swimming at their first ever Midland Championships was Charlie Percox (Aged 10) who won Bronze in the 200M Butterfly and also collected 11 Personal Best's (PB's) along the way, Rebecca Woolley (Aged 10) who made two finals with some outstanding swims and also achieved 5 PB's, Jacob Blakemore (Aged 10) who collected 3 PB's and Jon Mills (Aged 10) who collected 2 PB's. All these swimmers gained valuable experience in the 50M pool ready for next year's events.
Megan Carline (Aged 11) lead the charge for National recognition with a phenomenal couple of weekends, gaining an additional 4 National Qualifying Times (NQT) in the 200M and 400M Individual Medley, the 200M Freestyle and also in the 200M Butterfly making her total a magnificent 7 for the year. Megan also collected Silver in both the 800M Freestyle and 200M Butterfly and Bronze in the 1500M Freestyle, and was also crowned 6th overall in the Midlands for her age group and swam 8 PB's.
Alexandra Harris (Aged 13) also gained another 2 National Qualifying Times which takes her haul to 5 NTQ's for the season, and she also topped the medals haul with a truly remarkable 6 medals in total from the Championships. Gaining Gold in the 200M Freestyle, Silver in the 400M, 800M and 1500M Freestyle and Bronze in the 100M Freestyle and 100M Butterfly. Alexandra was also crowned 6th overall in the Midlands for her age group and swam 10 PB's.
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